Current Events > Why did the clone wars tv series have such an odd viewing order for episodes?

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https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-the-clone-wars-chronological-episodeorder

There's a release order and chronological order above.

It's like they kept dropping plot lines mid plot then went somewhere else during the season, only to then show you how something all started a season or 2 later.

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I'm really not sure, it makes watching it in chronological order, which is how it should be watched aside from a small handful of episodes (mostly about Fives and his unit) a real pain in the ass

Because where they were in the timeline has more to do with what story ideas the writers had than anything else. It's also meant to follow in the steps of IV, in terms of things not strictly being in order of given complete context.

Then down the line somebody thinks of an interesting setup or follow up to a previous plot line. It's a structure that allows more open ended creativity than a strictly linear story, and it can do so since we are already familiar with most of the characters. That's why something like Rebels needed to be chronological.

But the story lines there are of significantly lower quality imo.

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it's an anthology show.

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Medussa posted...

it's an anthology show.

sure but they also finish their mini plots in sequence, and they also dont

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Wasn't Batman TAS the same way?

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Because they decided to revisit storylines they did in the past